Here's another fun demographic fact uncovered by the new Census Bureau report: not only are American whites of European descent having less babies, but Hispanics are
having more. With 2.3 kids per mom, Hispanics are having more children than other
ethnic group in the U.S.
Still, Hispanic women today are having less children than their mothers did,
mirroring the nationwide trend of reduced fertility.
High birth rates among minorities combined with immigration mean
that by 2042, whites will be a minority group in the U.S. While the African American
population is projected to remain pretty constant, Hispanic and Asian populations will double by 2050, to 30 percent and 9
percent, respectively.
Perhaps we Americans will be forced to learn a language other than English after all. And we were doing so well getting every other population in the world to speak our Mother Tongue....
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